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How to Remove Your Computer Has Been Locked Virus?

Computer has been locked and you are prevented from booting into your operating system? If you unfortunately get infected with ransomware virus and disabled to access your computer, then you come to the right place. This article is going to offer you step-to-step guide about unlocking severely infected computer. Please read more.

What is Your computer has been locked virus?

The “Your computer has been locked!” pc lock screen is a computer virus, that pretends to be from official Law enforcement agency and states to display a bogus notification that your computer has been locked due to it being involved with the distribution of porngraphic material, spam and copyrighted contents.

Once settled on the compromised computer, Your computer has been locked virus begins to start the malicious program and write to Windows registry. In the following, it locks down the system and then displays a message that the computer was locked due to law violations and then asking to pay a certain amount of fine.

All attempts of users to do something on the blocked computer turn out to be vain. The fake “Your computer has been locked” warning message says that in order to unblock your computer you must pay the fine through Ukash of Paysafecard payment systems. Still, this is a serious mistake to obey the instructions of this scary desktop locker. You’d better find the proper anti-malware solution and malware uninstall guidelines that will help you unlock your system.

Furthermore, to make its alert seem more authentic, this virus also has the ability to access your installed webcam, so that the bogus “Your computer has been locked!” notification shows what is happening in the room.

The “Your computer has been locked!” notification is used by cyber criminals alongside the name of known international law enforcement agencies like Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),Europol and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), or local law enforcement agencies like: West Yorkshire Police, Metropolitan Police and Canadian police.

Below is screenshots of “Your computer has been locked!” ransomware:

Important Notice: The messages from the claimed official orgnization are not true. When you get such kind of message on your computer, it indicates that your computer is getting infected with ransomware virus. Please do not pay any money with the hope to unlock your computer. The only method to recover your operating system is to remove the ransomware virus.

Damage or Symptoms of Your computer has been locked ransomware:

You are not allowed to access the computer’s desktop for the screen was locked up by the ransomware virus.

You are unable to access the Internet.

Safe mode may also be disalbed by the “Your computer has been locked” ransomware virus.

System Restore may be deleted by the virus that you are unable to recover your computer via System Restore point.

How does Your computer has been locked ransomware spread?

Your computer has been locked ransomware is mainly spread by Trojan virus that come from the websites or domain hacked by cyber criminals. It also spread via infected download URL, hacked free program and many other ways.

To avoid possible Trojan virus infection, please take cautions when you get any attachments or link that come through in your email or popular social network sites; be carefully with the software you install on your computer. Install only that which you need, or is from a trusted source. Avoid software that is bundled with other pieces of software and download your programs from well-known sites. The bundled free software is always too good to have on your computer.

Your computer has been locked Virus Removal Guide

Removal Option 1 Using Rescue Disk to recover your computer

Anvi Rescue Disk is a brand-new blockbuster developed by Anvisoft to help users remove ransomware infection. If your computer is locked up due to ransomware infection and even unable to boot into safe mode, then you may need this powerful ransomware killer–Anvi Rescue Disk to save your computer OS.

Anvi Rescue Disk Download:

(Note:rescueDisk.iso is a large file download; please be patient while downloading.)

Please close BootUsb.exe tool after you successfully burn the file to USB drive when you get following message.

Now, you have bootable Anvi Rescue Disk to repair your computer.

step 3

Start your infected computer and configure your computer to boot from USB drive/DV/DVD that recorded Anvi Rescue Disk. Basically, you can use F8 to load USB boot menu.

For different motherboard, you may need to use the Delete or F2, F11 keys, to load theBIOS menu. Normally, the information how to enter the BIOS menu is displayed on the screen at the start of the OS boot.

Now you are in the mini Operating system, please double click Rescue tool to start Anvi Rescue disk.

step 6

Please run a full scan by clicking the “Scan Computer” button in the middle of the program to detect and kill the PC lockup virus.

step 7

Clicking “Fix Now” to remove the detected threat by Anvi Rescue Disk.

step 8

Switch to Repair tab. Scan and fix the registry error with the “Repair” module of Anvi Rescue Disk.

Important Notice:You must repair the registry error after kill the virus. You are probably disabled to boot your Windows without fixing registry damaged by the virus. After you remove the virus and repair the registry errors, you should follow the tips and download Anvi Smart Defenderto full scan your PC to completely clean leftover of the virus infection.

You may need to upgrade to Pro version of Anvi Smart Defender to fix the registry error.

You may need to check the article about Tutorial on Network Configuration if you fail to connect to Internet cloud when you are using Anvi Rescue Disk to recover your computer.

For any question, please feel free to let us know. You can simply leave a reply or send us an email (support@anvisoft.com).

Ransomware Removal Guide video

Option 2 Safe Mode with Command Prompt Restore

In some case,when your computer is not severely infected, you can easily recover your computer with Windows restore point. For detail information , please read more on following steps.

step 1

Reboot your computer to Safe Mode with Command Prompt.

Unplug your Internet Cable and boot your computer into safe mode or normal mode. Please note that you should log in as administrator. By disconnecting your operating system from Internet, Korps Landelijke Politiediensten (klpd) Ransomware Virus will be disabled to run on your computer.

step 2

Once the Command Prompt appears you only have few seconds to type “explorer” and hit Enter. If you fail to do so within 2-3 seconds, the ransomware virus will not allow you to type anymore.

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